Made by Desay Corporation (same as the original) on (Coconut Battery App). Their new battery is rated at 2974mAh (same as original). We understand as well as anyone the urge to fix things, but Apple’s insistence on reworking and re-reworking the troubled butterfly design came at such a high cost-financially, environmentally, and to the Mac’s reputation-and for what? We’ll probably never know all the factors that led to the creation and persistence of the butterfly keyboard, but this Magic keyboard is a reminder that sometimes the difference between usable and unusable, or repairable and unrepairable, can be as small as half a millimeter. Battery health on my iPhone X had degraded to 74 so I did some research on the internet to find out how to replace the battery myself. Observations: The power button is now integrated into the keyboard, instead of it being part of the upper case. Knowing that Apple’s thinnest-and-lightest notebook accommodates a scissor-switch keyboard so gracefully makes us wonder what it was all for. iFixIt has posted their teardown of the 11.6-inch MacBook Air revealing six batteries. More than anything, that 0.5 mm illustrates the sheer unnecessary-ness of the five painful years that Mac fans spent smashing on unresponsive butterfly keyboards. IFixit highlights in its full teardown that the update to the reliable Magic Keyboard only added 0.5mm to the thick end of the new MacBook Air… a more than worth it trade-off.
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